Ambassador condemns the decision and calls for clemency
Beijing/Ottawa — A Chinese court upheld on Tuesday a Canadian man’s death sentence for drug smuggling a day before another court is due to rule on the case of another Canadian accused of spying.
Robert Schellenberg was arrested for drug smuggling in 2014 and jailed for 15 years in late 2018. He appealed but a court in the city of Dalian sentenced him to death in January 2019, a month after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, charged with misleading HSBC about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran, potentially causing the bank to violate American economic sanctions.
The high court in the northeast province of Liaoning heard Schellenberg’s appeal against the death sentence in May last year and confirmed the verdict on Tuesday. “It is not a coincidence that these are happening right now, while the case is going on in Vancouver,” Barton said, referring to Schellenberg’s case and that of another Canadian, Michael Spavor.
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